HOLLAND DOCUMENTS: V. 353 their Commission, read by me Arnold van Hnrdenbergh who summoned his Honor by virtue thereof, to appear, by the first opportunity, at the Hague before their High Mightinesses, there to hear such demand and conclusion as Cornells Melyn shall desire to institute or make against his Honor. Whereunto his Honor made answer, to the best of our recollection -- / honor the Slates and their Commission, and will obey their Comma7ids, and send an Agent to maintain the Judgment, as it was ivell and legally pronounced. I demanded to have the answer in writing, but the

(leneral said. Whenever you deliver me an authentic copy of the Mandamus, I will give it to you. I then requested Secretary Tienhoven, there present, whose duty it was, to be pleased to do so and to authenticate it, but he refused to do so, saying, You may do it yourself, which I afterwards did, and should have placed it in the General's hands next day, but a rumor prevailed that the Indians had killed a Dutchman, and Melyn aforesaid had gone to Staten Island; so I brought his Honor the copy of the Mandamus first on the 15"" ditto, accompanied by Augustyn Heerman and Jacob van Couwenhoven, and then requested his Honor's answer in writing, but he refused it, saying. Their High Mightinesses' award I shall regard. Thus done and transacted on the day and date aforesaid, at the Manhattans in New Netherland. (Signed) Arnoldus van Hardenbergh. Augustyn Heerman, Witness. Jacob van Couwenhoven, Witness. (Endorsed) Certificate of the service made on Monday the S"" March 1649 on Director Petrus Stuyvesant, of their High Mightinesses' Mandamus in case of appeal in the matter of the judgment delivered the SS"" July 1647, in New Netherland, against Cornells Melyn ; by which will be seen Stuyvesant's disrespect of their High Mightinesses' Mandamus, and his tergiversation and all sorts of subterfuges, on frivolous and unfounded foundations.